Ivan Kondov

Ivan Kondov is a Bulgarian politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from August 2024 to January 2025 and briefly in 2023. A political independent, he previously served as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2021 to 2023 and Bulgarian Ambassador to Spain from 2017 to 2021.

Early life Kondov was born on 10 August 1968. In 1994 he graduated from the University of National and World Economy with a degree in international relations, later also acquiring courses in international relations at the Diplomatic School of Spain and the Center for Security Policy Studies. He started working in international relations in 1995, a year after graduating, as an expert in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He then worked in political affairs at the Embassy of Bulgaria, London, and afterward worked as an expert and member of the delegation of Bulgaria to NATO from 2001 to 2007. He left Madrid in mid-December and officially announced his departure in January 2021.

Personal life He speaks fluently in other languages like Spanish, English, French, and Italian, and sometimes uses Russian and Portuguese.